AS400

What is the current AS400 situation?

Few decades earlier, many businesses across industry verticals such as Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing etc. built solutions on AS400. These solutions have come to support the ‘bread and butter’ processes in many organizations, hence CTOs/CIOs do not wish to bring about a change in the way they go about conducting their day to day business.

if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.

As these systems continue to service the current needs, there are inhibitions when it comes to shaking up the status quo. But how long will you manage this status quo?

The big question is ‘Who bells the cat?’

We put in a lotta money

Time, energy and money was spent in building/enhancing these systems, so the longer we run with the current setup, better the ROI. However, the quandary the CEOs face is

‘Is the milking of these investments worth the business risk it presents?’

Fine tuning with time

These systems don’t see ‘amateurish’ issues, but those who shaped these systems have retired or are about to, which diminishes understanding, making future fixes/enhancement more risky.

What are we faced with?

Current reality often dictates choices and the future becomes a reflection of choices we make today.

While the technology leadership might be apprehensive of a change, they know it is wise to bring about and might be living through nightmares waiting to happen. We have seen ‘CIOs/CTOs grapple with these challenges’ in the past:

Scarcity of resources

CXOs can halt all enhancements and focus on support alone or train a bunch of millennials who have no RPG, AS400 or mainframe knowledge.

Inability to diversify risk

Mitigation of risk is vital and technology is no exception. Scarce skills result in those who develop these systems becoming indispensable.

Limited integration

Reluctance to move away from legacy systems makes it difficult to exchange data with new systems. Seamless, automated operations become time-taking and error-prone.

Uncertainty of impact

For the lack of documentation, business folks cannot understand and define the system behaviour. Changes in the code are followed by chaos, some patchwork and a few sleepless nights.

The world has come to a point where, the only way ahead is to stay in sync with technology.

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